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But doesn't also much get lost when the manager can't keep up with 60 reports? Mathematics teaches us that the distance in a tree, from root to leaf, where eac
by lupire 2y ago
But doesn't also much get lost when the manager can't keep up with 60 reports?
Mathematics teaches us that the distance in a tree, from root to leaf, where each node is a linked list, is minimized when the branching factor is e, the base of the natural logarithm. For example, e is the most efficient base for writing integers.
Management isn't quite the same, but branch size is are relevant.
Management isn't
- viraptor 2y agoHave you got a source for e as the optimal branching factor? (On average it feels plausible, but haven't seen a confirmation) But I don't get the idea about writing numbers in base e - by definition integers in base e are the least efficient, because they'd be infinite.
- gravescale 2y agoIt's called radix economy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy A non-integral number like e is obviously of limited utility in physical systems because having e adders in your ALU doesn't make much sense. 3 is closer then 2 to e, which also why ternary arithmetic was attempted for a while, but the massive advantage of binary in terms of implementation (it is much easier and far lower power to use transistors to slam a voltage high or low than keep it somewhere in the middle, and easier to arrange gates to have only on and off as inputs) won in the end.